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Photograph of Eden Hall
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eden Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Eden Hall is a historic plantation house located near McCormick in McCormick County, South Carolina. It was built about 1854, and is a large white frame Greek Revival style dwelling.”

Wikipedia article Eden Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6 mi. NE of McCormick off U.S. 221 and SR 24, McCormick, 29819
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McCormick
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80003678 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Eden Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 674 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning105 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCRESWELL
16 September 1999Debris and open burning60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eden Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Young MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCormick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1995Thunderstorm WindMcCormick$5,000Numerous trees and powerlines down McCormick to Modoc.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMcCormick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCormick County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sylvania1.6 miles1977
Long Cane Massacre Site5.0 miles1983
Otway Henderson House5.6 miles1985
Joseph Jennings Dorn House5.7 miles1985
McCormick County Office Building5.7 miles2024
Farmer's Bank5.8 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003678 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick CountyAll 22 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.